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Dodge Magnum Owners are Swapping their Front Ends for Challengers’
I recently met someone who had one of these wild creations, and it blew my mind. Personally,I now have a complicated history with Dodge myself right now as an EV Scat Pack owner, but this reminded me why I have enjoyed the ridiculousness of Stellantis’s Muscle cars. This discovery sent me down Mopar Facebook rabbit…
The Value of Honest Cars
After driving endless cars in my life, I’ve realized there’s another unquantifiable stat that matters a lot towards my daily relationship with them: Predictability. For example, my household includes a Subaru Impreza RS, It is not a fast car. The steering offers barely enough tactile feedback, and the brake feel yeah, “fine.” But it’s a…
Did Star Trek Get the Idea for One of its Most Iconic Designs from the Ford Thunderbird?
There’s a mid-century design parallel that I’ve been pondering a lot lately: the connection between the Ford Thunderbird’s sequential turn signals in 1965 and the bridge of the USS Enterprise in 1966. The Glamorous Thunderbird The 4th generation Thunderbird was updated in 1965 to better compete with its new, more popular brother, the Mustang. It…
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